BAE, Europe’s largest military contractor, paid a total civil penalty of $79 million for alleged violations of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). It is the largest civil penalty the State Department has ever levied.

As Congress has put in place whistleblower reward laws that reach such violations (the False Claims Act, a stronger IRS whistleblower program and the Dodd-Frank SEC whistleblower program), we can expect to see more and larger cases brought by insiders who have lacked any incentive to come forward until now.

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